The World Vs. The Olympics
In recent weeks our news has been filled with talk of boycotts of the Beijing Olympics, to take place later this year. It’s raised a lot of issues, not least of all the concern a lot of world leaders...
View ArticleSpecial Reports – The Recession
To mark the anniversary of the collapse of the stock market and the recession that followed, I’m planning to showcase a series of reports documenting the history of the shock, what’s gone wrong since...
View ArticleRobert Mundell’s New World Order
Canadian-born Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner (in 1999, for his work introducing the Euro) has a new idea he feels could drag the global economy out of the quagmire it finds itself in....
View ArticleTimeline of the Recession
Using the BBC, Daily Telegraph and a California State University newspaper as sources, I’ve put together the timeline below, tracking the key moments during the recession. February 2007: It started...
View ArticleBBC Aftershock
The BBC’s got a series of programmes running this month on the various effects and lessons learned since the recession began. I found their statistical information and data particularly interesting,...
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